New and Exciting Features Planned for Python 3.4

With the alpha releases slowly trickling out, we have a pretty accurate idea of the new features that Python 3.4 will include. The additions and big changes we know of so far are:

• a standardized "enum" module
• improved semantics for object finalization
• adding single-dispatch generic functions to the standard library
• a new C API for implementing custom memory allocators
• changing file descriptors to not be inherited by default in subprocesses
• a new magic method for metaclasses (__typelookup__)
• making automatic sequence unpacking more general

How to get an early peek at Python 3.4

You can download the latest pre-release now to start experimenting with some of the new features.

Future Updates

As soon as Python 3.4.0 is out, we will have a full review here, so be sure to subscribe to our Python tag and The Changelog Weekly for further updates.